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' APPAREL BELT.' (Application led Jan. 30, A1900.)

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INVENTOR WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY :fm-miams Prrcns co. PHOTO-nwo.. WASHINGTON, D, 1;.

rra Sfr'rns HENRY POLAK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS B. RAY, OF SAME PLACE.

APPAREL-BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,225, dated November 6, 190.0. Application filed JannarySO, 1900. Seria] No. 3,345. No model.)

To al?, whom, t may concern: belt is in use, being hidden by the parts A Beit known that I, HENRY POLAK,formerly and B. The ends a and h are provided with asubjectof theEmperorof Germany, butnow buttonholes I). These buttonholes may be a citizen of the United States, residing at New several in number and are intended to afford 5 York city, borough of Brooklyn, county of means of securing the belt to the band of the 55 Kings, State of New York, have invented a garment at the sides thereof. The front ter new and useful Improvement in Belts, of minals of the belt meet atEand are provided which the following is a specification. with any of the usual adjustable means of at My invention relates specifically to a belt tachment, such as a buckle F. When in use 1o or band separable from and in no way a part the buttonholes are secured to the waistband 6a of the garment to which it is adapted to be of the garment and the front ends are drawn attached, and it is intended by reason of this around in front of the wearer. The pull upon to secure a belt which will at all times when the two parts A and B of the belt causes the in use and properly adjusted maintain the smaller ends a, and b to draw backward on I5 garment in its proper and most comfortable the waistband of the garment, taking all the 65 position. fullness of the garment to the rear, and when To this end my invention consists in what in a satisfactory position the fastening at- I shall term a two-part belt, the two parts tachment at the front can be secured, to the having a sliding connection and attachment comfort of the wearer.

zo to each other and being provided at their in- I have shown one form providing for the ;o ner ends (hidden terminals below the belt sliding connection of the two-part belt at the proper) with means of securing the same to rear; but other means may be employed, and the waistband of the garment to which the Ido notlimitmyselfto this particular method. belt is adapted to be attached and in combi- Also insteadof the buttonholes on the smaller z5 nation with which it is to be utilized. I also and inner ends of the belt other means of se- 75 employ any form of adjustable fastening decuring the same to the waistband of the garvice at the front and joining ends of the belt. ment may be employed without departing The result of myinvention is the production from the spirit of my invention. Also, as of a belt which can be easily attached to or aforesaid, any adjustable attachment at the 3o detached from the garment of the wearer and front meeting ends of the two-part belt may 8 0 which will when in use and properly adjustbe employed. ed draw the waistband of the garment back- Of course it is to be understood that where ward, placing all the fullness at the rear and the expression two-part belt or a belt of securing at the front a neat appearance, at two pieces7 is employed two parts are meant 35 the same time effecting the greatest degree of having relative movement one with the other, 85 comfort, as will be explained. as the parts or pieces may be made of differl will proceed to describe my invention in ent pieces assembled together. Keepers for connection with the accompanying drawings. the ends are also provided and attached.

Figure l represents a View of one of my im- I am aware that garments, such as drawers,

4.o proved belts opened, so as to display the form have heretofore employed bands formed in 9o and structure of all the parts. Fig. 2 repreone with and as a part of the garment intersents a front view ofthe belt in use. Fig. 3 laced at the back and having means of at- `represents a rear view of the belt in use. Fig. taching and adjusting the loose ends of the al represents a view o-f the belt in position. bands to the garment, such as is shown in 45 Referring to the drawings, A and B repre- United States patent of l'I. Borkim, No. 95 sent, respectively, the two parts of the two- 196,780, dated November b', 1877, and I do part belt aforesaid. 'lhese two parts or memnot claim such an article, the fundamental :bers are interlaced, as shown at C. Theinner and important distinctions in my invention orsmaller ends aand brake positions beneath being, first, the detachability of the article,

5o the parts A and B, as will be seen, when the ,constituting thereby a belt and not a waistroo band or forming in any manner a part of the garment, and, second, the capacity of my improved belt to permit the garment in connection with which it is employed to be held in the set position, while the belt itself can play freely around the front of the waistband.

My invention is limited to a belt which includes the following specifications: first, a separate article from the garment in connection with which it is to be used; second, it is com posed of two parts connected to each other at the rear and having relative movement; third, the inner ends lie under the belt proper and have means of fixture to the garment, and, fourth, the forward ends are free from the garment and have means of attachment to each other. I hereby disclaim any strnctu re not em ploy ing all of these features in combination and limit myself to such a combination. Having thus described/my invention, the

following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A belt composed of two parts connected to one another by a sliding connection, said parts having means of detachably securing same to a garment at their inner and smaller ends as described, and the outer ends provided with means of attachment to each other.

2. A belt arranged to be detachably conneeted to a garment, consisting ot' two parts or pieces adj nstably seen red to each other and having their inner and smaller ends located beneath or under the belt for the purposes set forth, and an adjustable fastener for securing the other ends to one another.

HENRY POLAK.

Vitnesses:

HERBERT KNIGHT, COLIN C. CAMPBELL. 

